Hitherto, it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day’s toil of any human being. + 

John Stuart Mill + 

Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, + 

Ere the sorrow comes with years? + 

They are leaning their young heads against their mothers, + 

And that cannot stop their tears. + 

The young lambs are bleating in the meadows; + 

The young birds are chirping in the nest; + 

The young fawns are playing with the shadows; + 

The young flowers are blowing toward the west⁠— + 

But the young, young children, O, my brothers, + 

They are weeping bitterly! + 

They are weeping in the playtime of the others, + 

In the country of the free. + 

Mrs. Browning + 